Did things really start to go wrong for * when the "leak" got stopped?

[waywest]

Coincidence? Just seems to me that when the pukes couldn't cheat as neatly, the newly level playing field reeeeally sucked for bushco.
BTW, I'm ready for the exposee about Frist's computer. And Cheney's Plamegate story. And the * testimony at 9-11 panel.

[keopeli]

1. Bush's* high water mark was his aircraft carrier landing.

Since that day, the cards have been working against him. His SOTU address was the beginning of the end, because it was not a resounding victory speech.

[blackcat77]

5. That was the day he jumped the shark

That stunt was SO over the top that people took a second look, not only at that moment -- and especially the "Mission Accomplished" -- but also all the other stuff. So many times he's boasted and postured and strutted around and a few weeks or months later, it's all turned to ashes for him.

Now, people are finding it harder and harder to believe him on anything. He says the economy is the "best it's been in 20 years," but people aren't blind. He says we're victorious in Iraq, but people can see the carnage every day on tv. He declares orange alerts that come to nothing and are criticized by people all over the world.

Once these thing start down the slippery slope, it's very difficult to stop. Bush is in trouble.

[Tom Kitten]

2. Possibly...

When the CIA agents made their request for an investigation to the DOJ, and some of them appeared on Nightline and the Lehrer Report, that wa the first time I recall the mainstream media paying attention to any sort of serious criticism of this maladministration...

And certainly the gates have opened since!

[fearnobush]

3. When it got exposed, Chimps approval ratings slid fast,

until the media decided to squash the issue - Plame leak issue. I must have sent over 1000 e-mails to all the media whores on this deliberate act of treason denial.

[calimary]

4. Might have been David Kay.

But the SOTU didn't help. Plus, in quick succession came the "Meet the Press" business, plus the pounding from the Democrats, increasingly emboldened - especially by the vigor, prominence (for quite a while), and outspoken, unapologetic anger of the Howard Dean campaign - and increasingly covered by the media (which means THEIR message was the one getting out more often), and now AWOL. With a steady sprinkling of bad economic news, bad job numbers, bad outsourcing numbers, and bad casualty numbers from Iraq.

Mainly, I think the Plame affair started it all, last summer, because before that, it was just this constant, candy-coated sunbath gently fluttering down upon him with reporters mainly wondering which of his toes he wanted to have massaged that day. I think it REALLY started back then, although it's progressed in an extremely uneven manner, lurching along in fits and starts ever since.

The high-water mark was 9/11. You couldn't even get his critics to say "boo" then. And whoever dared to was shouted down and demonized as unpatriotic and pro-Saddam.

[2004Donkeys]

6. No, it was the War On Iraq

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